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I'm not a lebron fan, but thats pretty fucking cool seeing him that excited for a guy to make that shot, given lebron makes more than twice that per game...
 
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Where do I sign up to 'owe' 23k in tax but profit 52k? I'd take that all day. Lots of math wizards in here huh.
 
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penguinfan said:
I miss the America I grew up in.
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The America with a 90% marginal federal tax rate, and federal estate taxes on wealth over $70,000?

The America where a company CEO only earned about 40 times what his average employee made, and a great athlete made less than 40 times what a great school teacher made?

Now we have a country where athletes making a billion dollars are whiners, and retirees collecting a Social Security check without paying taxes are takers.

Buy a clue.

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lostinamerica said:
The America with a 90% marginal federal tax rate, and federal estate taxes on wealth over $70,000?

The America where a company CEO only earned about 40 times what his average employee made, and a great athlete made less than 40 times what a great school teacher made?

Now we have a country where athletes making a billion dollars are whiners, and retirees collecting a Social Security check without paying taxes are takers.

Buy a clue.

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yep...tax the rich until they bleed and decide to take their ball and go elsewhere(because they can,unless you want to tax them for relocating,which i believe isn`t all that far fetched given today`s mindset that the rich are criminals).....then who do you tax?....why,you tax the middle class(that`s where the real money is,after all)...
 
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No support for anything like a 90% tax rate was either expressed or implied.

But the implication of the quoted poster that current tax policy is out of line with our history (or our contemporaries around the world) is just low information right wing bullshit.

The overall tax burden in this country is shockingly regressive compared to "the America I grew up in".

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gardenweasel said:
yep...tax the rich until they bleed and decide to take their ball and go elsewhere(because they can,unless you want to tax them for relocating,which i believe isn`t all that far fetched given today`s mindset that the rich are criminals).....then who do you tax?....why,you tax the middle class(that`s where the real money is,after all)...
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California threatened to do that gw..
 
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ZERO income tax pre 1913 (when the fed was created in the back room by the worlds biggest bankers).

Revolutionary war fought over 3% total taxes
 
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Was a simple true statement.


I didn't want to go into how pointless the comparison actually is. Theft is theft is theft.

Less theft doesn't make it any more moral.

And I know you were just responding to the gent who said it isn't the America he grew up in, but I'm taking it back further and saying it's not the America that became the wealthiest and freest nation on earth by far. The revolution was to be free. We are now going in the opposite direction. Not that I expected it to go differently than every other civilization in time, just saying.

And I don't follow your sports reference. Are you suggesting a group of connected greedy fucks in Washington should be able to make rules to change the flow of funds (the free market). The money is made by them because of them. Should they be forced to not make a certain amount of money?
It may suck by your morals, but essentially the public has voted with their wallets to give these guys that money.
 
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What you appear to be saying is that every single outcome resulting from economic activity by whatever less than perfect markets are being exploited is the exalted end all and be all of what is property and what is proper, and every slight or material deviation from that as a matter of political will in a constitutional democracy is an illegitimate expression of the public welfare. None of that was "the America" of 1776 or 1789 or any other vision of the founders.

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With all the bankruptcies of those young men who play it, isn't sports the greatest example of redistribution of wealth? just askin :shrug:
 
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lostinamerica said:
No support for anything like a 90% tax rate was either expressed or implied.

But the implication of the quoted poster that current tax policy is out of line with our history (or our contemporaries around the world) is just low information right wing bullshit.

The overall tax burden in this country is shockingly regressive compared to "the America I grew up in".

GL
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fed and estate taxes are just a part of the equation,l.i.a.....in maryland alone the pols have implemented 24 new taxes and "fees"(i.e. hidden taxes) the last few years......people are moving in droves to northern virgina and florida.....i`m considering relocation as we speak...
 
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